TEHRAN (Iran News) –Concurrent with the International Design Day, Embassy of Italy in Tehran on Thursday and in a ceremony opened its restored and remodled conference hall at Italian Ambassador’s Residence.

Italian Ambassador Giuseppe Perrone hosted the event where many distinguished art especially artists, architects, diplomats and media persons were present.

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Addressing the ceremony, Ambassador Perrone welcomed the participants and explained about the operation for restoring and remodling the conference hall that it has now a climate of mixed Iranian and Italian cultural works.

He said that this building is very important artistically and historically, noting that First Secretary and Head of the Economic and Commercial Office David Baloni and Cultural and Press Attache Yara Romanova helped a great deal in restoring and opening this hall.

He said that there were two goals behind restoring this hall, one was the importance of cooperation between Iran and Italy and some pictures used in this hall are taken from Iranian films focused on Italy and also from Villa Namazee which is significant example for cultural cooperation between Iran and Italy.

He said that some part of Iranian documentary “Radiology of a Family” has been made in this hall by Firouzeh Khosrovani and some photos of the film are now in the hall.

He added that the second goal behind this action was to gather a valuable collection of cultural cooperation between the two states through showing cultural of Iran and Italian classic culture.

Then Baloni, for his part, explained the reasons for this action and said that they have tried to give value to the objects. He said that Villa Namazee is very important and one of the most important example of building villa in an Italian style which was built in Iran by Italian architect and designer Gio Ponti designed his third villa (after the Venezuelan Villa Planchart and Villa Arreaza).

He added some of architectural arts of this villa have been put on display in this hall. He then explained about the photos on the wall of the hall and tapestry used there.

Then famous Iranian architect Kamran Naderi briefed the participants of the Italian Ambassador Residence which is a beautiful garden in Iranian style adding that the garden is around 7000 square meters and it is one of the few Iranian gardens which has been preserved so far.

He also noted that cultural exchange is very important especially in architecture.

At the end of the event, Ms. Khosrovani, maker of documentary of Radiology of a Family, briefed the participants of the reason for choosing this hall as one of the locations for her documentary.